homeostasis

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɒmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊmɪə(ʊ)ˈsteɪsɪs/
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• General-American: /ˌhoʊ.mi.oʊˈsteɪ.sɪs/
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• rhymes with -eɪsɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: HH OW2 M IY0 OW0 S T EY1 S AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Coined from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, the same”) + -stasis by Walter Bradford Cannon, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis, “standing, state”).

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَجَانُس (tajānus) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Armenian: հոմեոստազ (homeostaz) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Belarusian: гамеаста́з (hamjeastáz) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Bulgarian: хомеоста́за (homeostáza) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Bulgarian: хомеоста́зис (homeostázis) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Catalan: homeòstasi — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Chinese Mandarin: 穩態 /稳态 (wěntài) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Chinese Mandarin: 恆定狀態 /恒定状态 (héngdìng zhuàngtài) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Chinese Mandarin: 恆定性 /恒定性 (héngdìngxìng) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Chinese Mandarin: 體內平衡 /体内平衡 (tǐnèi pínghéng) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Czech: homeostáza — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Danish: homøostase — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Dutch: homeostase — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Finnish: homeostaasi — ability to stabilize internal environment
• French: homéostasie — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Georgian: ჰომეოსტაზი (homeosṭazi) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• German: Homöostase — ability to stabilize internal environment
• German: Selbstregulation — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Hungarian: homeosztázis — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Icelandic: samvægi — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Indonesian: homeostasis — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Irish: hoiméastáis — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Irish: aonstádas — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Italian: omeostasi — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Japanese: 恒常性 (kōjōsei) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Japanese: ホメオスタシス (homeosutashisu) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Kazakh: гомеостаз (gomeostaz) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Korean: 항상성 (hangsangseong) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Northern Kurdish: hevsengiya navekî — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Persian: همایستایی (ham-istâyi) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Polish: homeostaza — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Portuguese: homeostase — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Russian: гомеоста́з (gomeostáz) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Serbo-Croatian: homeostaza — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Slovak: homeostáza — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Slovene: homeostaza — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Spanish: homeostasis — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Swedish: homeostas — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Telugu: శారీరక సమతుల్యం (śārīraka samatulyaṁ) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Ukrainian: гомеоста́з (homeostáz) — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Vietnamese: cân bằng nội môi — ability to stabilize internal environment
• Vietnamese: hằng tính nội môi — ability to stabilize internal environment